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VMware Workstation (6) on (Gentoo) Linux

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ship2 build 653 ext3 copied to 2 GB virtual disk

VMware Workstation 6, Gentoo Linux host

Athlon64 X2, 4GB RAM

Everything seems to work, but I have not attempted any sound testing yet. I can download and install activities, see people via jabber.laptop.org, browse and read the RSS feeds. Today is actually the first time I've been able to get the RSS feed reader to work. This is posted from the virtual guest machine.

Ed Borasky (Znmeb), 15 December 2007

QEMU on Linux

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olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-build-655-20071228_1157-devel_ext3.img

Qemu 0.9.0

AMD Turion 64X2+ 2GB RAM; ubuntu7.10 i686; Kernel 2.6.23-r3

Mostly works, but I see only myself in the neighborhood. Browser activity works. No sound so far.

Boots fine into Sugar. The top activity toolbars are larger than they should. To get internet, followed the instructions in the emulation page. Slow, but usable. The Sugar UI is getting itself together, sweet :)

Boots OK; Avahi and HAL fail to start; keyboard, mouse and sound work fine; GUI doesn't start but the only thing you can see on tty7 is a black background and an 'x' mouse coursor and when you switch to tty1, it switches back to tty7 after a while, eventually I only managed to start X with startx and got twm running

2007.03.19

stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img

qemu 0.8.2

Debian testing (Etch), AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 1GB RAM

boots ok, works very slowly, no keyboard input, hangs unexpectedly

jan 2007.03.02

stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img

qemu 0.9

Ubuntu 6.06.1 1GB RAM (qemu had 512MB)

works fine, but could not network / browse internet / did not auto-configure networking... You definitely need to put some hint balloons in that GUI, it's hard to understand what's what

towsonu2003, 2007.02.17

stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img

qeumu 0.8.0

Ubuntu 6.06LTS, Linux 2.6.15-27-386, Centrino 1280MB RAM

when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage

ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19

stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img

qeumu 0.6.0-2mdk

Mandrake 10.1, Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk, Athlon XP 2100+, 1536MB RAM

when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage

ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19

build 217 20070105_1724 devel_ext3.img

qemu 0.8.2

Debian unstable, Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB RAM Linux 2.6.18.2 (vanilla)

Boots fine, but very slow. Apps work, except for abiword which just has a gray screen (same color as frame). No IP, but 'dhclient' fixes that. Changing 'onboot=yes' doesn't help. Got some kernel problems (IRQ4?) when starting vi/nano though, see http://rootshell.be/~ludoa/messages for my logfile & more info. Installed kqemu, modprobe'd it, but -kernel-kqemu gives a kernel panic, see rootshell.be/~ludoa/olpc_qemu_with_kqemu.png

LudoA, 2007.01.06

build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img

qemu 0.8.2

Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft - x86_64

Hangs on boot. Adding apm=off to kernel boot params in grub fixes this. It then boots Sugar (the UI), but no keyboard or mouse. CTRL-3 and then modprobe i8042 fixes this. Sugar works fine, but is quite slow. Also, no sound (even with qemu -soundhw all). Networking works fine. Will try to get qemu accelerator working in the future to improve performance.

2007.01.05

build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img

qemu 0.8.2 (-std-vga)

Ununtu 6.06

Boots into GUI, asks for nickname and then no keyboard or mouse. The modprobe i8042 trick did not work until I told qemu to use a standard vga output (-std-vga). Still pretty slow. I have tried to get networking or sound going yet.

Jeff Waddell 2007.01.04

build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img

qemu 0.8.1-1 (-soundhw all -hda)

Debian etch (testing)

Boots into GUI, but no keyboard or mouse before "modprobe i8042" several times (!) on the serial console (Ctrl-Alt-3). No networking or sound, slow.

Everything worked except sound (known issue). About as fast as a real XO. SEGVs in startup and shutdown when accessing the clock, but everything worked. Complaint about "GDM" in the DBUS
startup, but it scrolled by too fast to read it. Minor rendering glitch on yahoo.com (part of a pulldown is displayed), but successful at browsing.

Work really well with network, full screen after font size change. This text is written from the emulator! Next step is keyboard change and localization... Only problem, python dump (double deallocation message?) when I shutdown linux.

Following the instructions for starting up Qemu with the XO build did not work, had to start minimally with "qemu . -L <img name>", or qemu would fail with "could not load PC bios '/c/Program Files/Qemu/bios.bin'". Once in Sugar, I don't seem to be able to get the Application icon needed to close an application. Only the Neighbourhood, Group, Home, and Activity icons are available in the Frame.

Boots good, everything works good except noted broken stuff (camera, tomtom, etc). I've noticed that it will basically lockup if you run more than two or three activities at once. Also, the feed reader and journal are very system intensive.

Booted ok. No keyboard, but mouse ok. The modprobe fix did not work. ctrl-alt-3 opened a terminal. ctrl-alt-1 showed the gui. ctrl-alt-2 showed the qemu monitor. Typing "sendkey ctrl-alt-f1" and "sendkey-ctr-alt-f7" in the monitor did nothing. I was able to login sending a special character with the mouse (right-click menu) as login name. Speed was ok, loaded write, paint and browse apps. Could not close apps, nor quit from the gui.

Since this hasnt been updated for a while:
Boots and runs OK. Doesn't seem to be a consistant way to close activities. Very slow without kqemu, still quite slow with kqemu. No sound. Network untested. If you have trouble with booting, give it at least 30 mins on first boot. Text is very small, but seems to be proper proportions if you select scaled from first menu. Redraw of graphics is very slow, animation on frame is so jerky it would be better for it not to animate. Screen drawing speed helped by setting video out to directx in the Qemu startup batch script. Screen res issue means bottom and right of the screen don't work in some activities (eg. tamtam)

Boots OK, but the sign-in screen does not let you select an image and therefore will not let you proceed. Apparently, the camera module imports OK but won't return a valid pixmap? Worked around it by commenting out the part of /usr/share/sugar/shell/intro/intro.py that tries to import the glive module. This gives a file button you can click to select an image, but it will not let you browse to files... I had to find an image filename in the system and manually type it in (/usr/share/icons/olpc/16x16/stock/emoticons/stock-smiley-1.png). This gets me past the opening screen to the sugar shell. Camera, abiword, memosono, and slideshow fail to launch. Blockparty, Groupchat, PenguinTV, etoys, web, and tamtam seem to work, although there is of course no sound in any application. Using yum to install the full version of vim fails due to lack of space in the image.

Seems to boot and work well, no control problems, but does not run DHCP on startup, easily worked around by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, logging in as root, and running dhclient then returning with Ctrl-Alt-F7. Seems a little slower than running the same image under VMWare Player on Linux on an Athlon64 3200+, but this only really seems to affect boot speed. Looks nice! Unfortunately the default save location is "File System" which crashes AbiWord on saving, and loading files from the "OLPC" folder doesn't appear to work either (again apparent crash).

--RP 16:34, 31 January 2007 (CST)

build-231-20070113_0023-ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Celeron M 1.60GHz, 1GB RAM, XP Pro SP2

No problems booting, no problems with mouse or keyboard (didn't need to use modprobe at all). Network worked fine after applying the documented fix. However, after getting the network running, experienced the same problem below with repeated '1's appearing in an input text field (actually Google's search field) immediately afterwards. The system's speed is a little slower than what normally might be expected, but not too bad. No problems starting/using applications (I'm editing this page using the emulator!)

Boots fine and into GUI, had to use modprobe twice to get keyboard/mouse to work. Network worked after fix. Works fine except the frame around the edge is very slow to appear.

Sam

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Intel 2.6 GHz dualcore, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2

had to use ctrl-alt-3 (not 1) to bring up shell and ctrl-alt-1 (not 7) to bring back gui. had to modprobe 6 times to get mouse and keyboard to run. gui works ok and fast. tamtam looks garbled.

martsch

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Intel 2.16 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2

Same mouse and keyboard issue. Used the "modprobe i8042" fix but it ctrl-alt-1 and ctrl-alt-2 do not work so I could not switch back from ctrl-alt-3 after modprobe.

flatwethat

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Intel 2.66 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2

Same mouse and keyboard issue. Used the "modprobe i8042" fix but it needed to be run three times before OK. Then when input text field is given focus it prints 11111111111111111... until the delete key is hit. After deleting the input, the input text field works as expected.

illations

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Celeron M 1.60 GHz, 500MB RAM, XP home SP2

Mouse and keyboard do not work as reported below but I used the "modprobe i8042" fix listed in the Linux feedback above and it works OK

James

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Pentium 4 3.02 GHz, 1GB RAM, XP SP2

Mouse and keyboard do not work

Aaron

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

HP Pavillion dv5000 laptop,1.8Ghz, 1gb ram, XP MCE SP2

mouse and keyboard don't work

anger2headshot

build-192 20061201_1843 devel_ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Fujitsu Siemens 3,2 Ghz 1 Gb RAM, XP SP2

keyboard and mouse do not work, nothing really possible

Henubis DEC 3, 2006

build-185 20061117_2030 devel_ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Falcon Mach V AMD Athlon64 3200, 2 GHz 1GB RAM, XP SP2

keyboard and mouse OK, no network or sound. (network worked converted to VMWare Player). I updated instructions

keyboard and mouse did not work, "modprobe i8042" fix couldn't load module at first - but repeatedly running the modprobe command (quickly) eventually succeeded and now it works ok

CNS Jan 2, 2007

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

QEMU 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 1GB Ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, Windows XP SP2

Booted into GUI successfully, keyboard and mouse seemed broken but the issue was resolved used the 'modprobe' fix mentioned above. Slightly slow and the frame kept popping up at inconvenient points. Also after fixing keyboard issue and after enabling network access the first textbox I entered began to fill up with the character 1 and did not stop until I pressed something else on the keyboard. I expect this has something to do with the switching screen procedures common to each scenario.

Anon. Jan 02. 2007

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.7 GHz 512MB RAM, XP Pro SP1

As above keyboard and mouse did not work but repeated "modprobe i8042" eventually worked (it's Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the GUI once the module has loaded). Also had to follow instructions as linked to in feedback above to get a network connection and I too found the textbox filling with 1s.

tom. Jan 2, 2007

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Intel P4 3GHz 512MB RAM, XP Pro SP2

Got the mouse and keyboard working with:ctrl+alt+3, login as "root", enter "modprobe i8042", enter, ctrl+alt+1
Got the network connected as per the instructions. Obviously the OS is a work in progress so a few little niggles but it's quick enough and looks good.

Tim. Jan 2, 2007

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

AMD X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 2048MB RAM, Vista RC2 Build 5744

Problem and solution the same as above. Just wanted to say it's running on Vista RC2

ACluk90. Jan 2, 2007

build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img

Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9

Dell Inspiron, 512 MB RAM, XP SP2

The usual (had to use keyboard, mouse, and networking fixes). 7-Zip said the first two images I downloaded were corrupt (olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-193-20061203_1714-ext3.img.bz2 and olpc-redhat-stream-development-ext3.img.bz2). Loved the interface. Great use of screenspace, etc.

Images on a USB disk

Images running on OLPC hardware

(EE) GEODE(0): No valid modes were found
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.

dds

update.1-703

C1 XO-1 (G1G1)

Only the activities I had installed previously (xo-get, etc.) were available. None of the standard activities were there. After rebooting into update.1-691 using the o game button, browser would not start. I reinstalled update.1-691 and it's working again. Tried installing both candidate-703 and update.1-703 with the same results.

Update: My fault--you must install the activities separately in this release and above.

chelliot

update.1-690 (w/ Q2D12 firmware)

C1 XO-1 (G1G1)

Seem solid. Definitely faster and more responsive than 65x(ship.2). Wireless seems to have a little trouble after waking up from sleep after being asleep for a while, but this is easily fixed by just reselecting the access point. Laptop seems to suspend itself often which is annoying, especially for the record activity. Battery life is much improved. Looking forward to the GM.

darco

656

G1G1 XO-1

This is the first update I've attempted since receiving my laptop back in December, I needed to update olpc-update first and then ran
it to get this version. It crapped out at the end with the error "New build not signed won't boot without a developer key"

Chuck

656

G1G1 xo -1

Power management / sleep function seems not to work as well as in 653. I regularly run out of battery power, which did not happen in 653.

Lesley
03/09/08

Build 649 with Firmware Q2D04

B4 laptop with FIrmware Q2D04

Sugar and most activities running much faster and better than earlier builds. Still some problems with WEP keys being forgotten. Sound and camera working well. Journal activity can freeze up for minutes at a time if large .xo files have been downloaded in Browse activity.

Running ok and very stable. The keyboard with little change and battery charge monitor with impressisions, but the other functions more speed and stable. The install upgrade very simple too.

Jaime Balbino (jaimebalb [at] gmail [dot] com) 06 november 2007

Running Build 231 on two OLPC laptops.

No way to show camera in full-screen mode. This feature should be re-instated. Instead the new screen capture feature works but causes the captured shots to be almost illegible - colours run.
Network Neighbourhood - Group Chat works fine but have not had ANY success sharing any other activity. Perhaps this is not yet developed ? Quite stable - has never crashed but performance is very very slow.

David Chatterton 14 Jan 2007

Build 239_B21 on OLPC B-1

B-1 Hardware

Overall impression of Build 239: Sluggy but stable.

Hardware: Mouse pointer is quite difficult to position, jumps around quite often. Keyboard LED are mostly useless as they do not really light the keyboard. Maybe better to move them to top of screen as with Lenovo?

Camera activity: Cool. Seems though that you can only fill the picture bar with 8 pix, after that it FIFOs out, no arrows. Could be a problem when activity is shared with a few olpc and the bar fills fast.

Chat Activity: Hard to criticise with just one OLPC ;-)

Text Activity: Still supports too much non-open file formats. Word Doc is IMHO patent-encumbered. It should only support ODT, HTML and maybe RTF.

RSS Activity: Does not really work. Clicking on "Full entry" does not open the web page. Maybe I don't understand how it is supposed to work though.

eToys Activity: No time to play with it, takes ages to load.

Browser activity: I reconfigured fontsize to 8pt for fixed and 10pt for variable, now Slashdot.org looks acceptable. The tabbing feature really seems to be just a bokmark collection, correct?

Memory Activity: I liked the older version better, or more precise, my kids liked the older version better. The new version relies too much on color and is not really playable in transflective mode.

TamTam activity: Simply rocks.

Jan (dot) Wildeboer (at) redhat (dot) com

Joyride 1489 devel_jffs2

G1G1 system Dec2007 updated to Q2D07 firmware

Marvellous update with some issues

root password was unknown after the update limiting my options

A couple of lockups (maybe just long lag time) using activities

Power saving mode is a step in the right direction. Still a bit buggy though, but I've never encountered power saving modes on other kinds of laptops that actually work anyway.

Screen brightness jumps around from high to low and even low to high. This seems to occur at random times.

Script Cat

Joyride 1522 devel_jffs2

G1G1 system Dec2007 updated to Q2D08 firmware

A good build; I'd recommend upgrading to it

Wireless works

Newsreader app won't save feeds, possibly due to isolation

Suspend when on battery, resume when on AC seems to get things into a suspend/resume loop that is hard to get out of - but pressing the power button at just the right time in that loop seems to stop it (the loop) and unsuspend OK.